Micro-Housing as an Alternative Solution Housing Solution to the Big City

Abstract

Malaysia's federal capital, Kuala Lumpur, is the country's most populated and biggest metropolis. The city, on the other hand, becomes a ghost town at night, when the city's working population retires to the suburbs. Micro-housing may be an option for addressing this problem. This research tries to identify how micro-housing may be implemented in Kuala Lumpur by looking at micro-housing antecedents in places like New York and Seoul, as well as interviewing the design team behind the Kuala Lumpur micro-housing design concept "Micro-Village."